The Academy is pleased to present a global initiative through Maharishi Gandharva Veda music.* A global online Full Moon Festival series featuring world renowned sitarist, Reshma Srivastava will start on the November full moon, November 19.
The Arts
As a designer, photographer, and Teacher of Transcendental Meditation, John Ashforth was inspired to create this ‘word cloud’ – an artistic representation of the lnvincible Europe Assembly, held in the meditation Dome, Skelmersdale, Lancashire, UK in 2014. At that time, John was the Assembly leader. His responsibilities included the presentation of participants’ experiences of Transcendental Meditation which were often profound and sublime. He later analysed hundreds of their written accounts and added up their most regularly used descriptive words. Note: The size of the word represents the frequency of the word's usage.
Tony Nader, M.D., Ph.D., MARR, is a medical doctor trained at Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. in neuroscience), and a globally recognised Vedic scholar. As Maharishi Mahesh Yogi’s successor, Dr Nader is head of the international Transcendental Meditation® organisations in over 100 countries. From the Americas to Asia, from Europe to Africa, Dr Nader guides the Transcendental Meditation program and its advanced practices, and the practical applications of this technology in all areas of national life – education, health, business, defense, agriculture, and more.
The sitar master and pioneer of Maharishi Gandharva-Veda music, Pandit Devabrata (Debu) Chaudhuri has passed in Delhi at 85. Debuji will be known to many of us through many wonderful concerts but also through his leadership of the Maharishi Gandharva-Veda programme around the world...
Dr. Jacqueline Carr-Phillips introduces a holistic approach to literature and explains how reading helps to expand awareness. As a specialist in Russian literature in the light of total knowledge, Dr. Carr-Phillips relates the principles of Maharishi Vedic Science to the works of Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, demonstrating their value in refining the intellect and emotions, and inspiring the flow of bliss consciousness.
In the 1980’s after teaching Transcendental Meditation around the world for 30 years, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi was thinking about what more could he do to bring peace and happiness to mankind. He looked deeper into the Vedic literature of India, the oldest tradition of knowledge and human experience, and found Gandharva-Veda music, the eternal music of Nature . . .
An interview with leading exponent on Maharishi Vedic Science, Dr Anna Bonshek on ‘The Unmanifest Canvas: Maharishi Mahesh Yogi on the Arts, Creativity and Perception’ – a landmark book on the arts, consciousness and enlightenment.
To paint a canvas, carve a block of stone or mold clay; to weave a basket, blow glass or make a piece of jewelry; to design a residence, an automobile, or a website; to build furniture, an architectural model, or develop a fashion trend; to sing an aria, play sitar, or conduct an orchestra; to perform a ballet, recite Shakespeare, or direct a movie; to write a poem, a memoir or develop a storyline. . .